You need a white Republican presidentFollow

I was a part of that club. When I was 5-6 yrs old.

I made it 3 weeks at most.

Or the ones who would have passed a budget a week ago if given the chance, or would have been happy fiddling with the medical device tax. The ones who are looking at a hard re-election battle if too much right-wing rhetoric gets passed around. Still though, I can't really blame them for holding out for the whole volcano island lair really. Those do have a certain amount of quaint charm to them.

The House has dropped the medical device tax provisions from their framework. According to Robert Costa, they're "trying to get to 218" -- I assume that's largely 218 GOP votes.

They dropped the reinsurance tax delay earlier (because it was seen as a Democratic win) so that seems to just leave the income verification and some form of Vitter amendment left. Certainly worth cratering your numbers and crapping on your position for that.

Also, Rep. John Flemming (R-LA) admitted that the House plan is to run out the clock and try to pass a House bill at the last possible second to force the Senate to accept it. So, you know, there's some world class governing for ya.

Edited, Oct 15th 2013 2:08pm by Jophiel

Pretty clear that congress has lost the mandate of heaven. Expect seventy-thousand peasants to seize the capital any day now.

What moderate red House seats?

Tonight's House vote canceled. Whip counts must have failed to get 218 Republicans. Be a big loss for Boehner if he can't get something passed before the Senate bill.

Great metaphor, Mr. Krugman.

That's an awfully broad brush you're painting with.

Since we're being stereotypical and incendiary, I'd be much more tolerant of liberals if they weren't constantly: telling me what I can and cannot do, say and think in the name of "civility"; raiding my personal income to pay for another social welfare program that redistributes money instead of addressing the underlying societal and institutional issues; blindly supporting "the most transparent administration in history", which actually has a pretty horrendous track record (per the standard liberal platform) on surveillance of private citizens, upholding constitutional press freedoms, prosecution of whistle-blowers, detention of enemy combatants, unlawfully killing American citizens, withholding information from Congressional oversight under "executive privilege", enforcing "red lines", etc.; demonizing "Big Pharma", "Big Oil", "Big Banks", "Big Agriculture", "Big Tobacco", "Big Papi" (New York liberals only), Wallstreet, Fox News, the Koch brothers, the Tea Party, Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann for all of the country's problems.

But honestly, the thing that irritates me the most is constantly playing the race card. On everything. Because anybody that disagrees with the Standard Liberal Doctrine is automatically a racist.

Which brings us full circle, I guess. I look forward to your rate-downs, you commie-loving cnuts. ♥

I find it somewhat amusing and baffling, in equal measures, that they can choose to call or cancel votes based on presumption of whether or not they already have the votes needed.

That is pretty much what happens outside of mixed company. They won't say that in public but that is what is said behind closed doors. Thing is you are one bad day away from being on those same programs you hate so much right there in line with those same people you don't like now.

Edited, Oct 15th 2013 8:41pm by RavennofTitan

Maybe, but you get sick of hearing it down here. I find reasons not to be around much of my family all of which don't understand that the best thing to ever happen for Fox news and the rest was Obama getting elected and taking everything they say as if it were in the bible. I'm all for fiscal conservatives if they are really thinking about responsible cuts and not just to social safety nets but cut from everyone. The ones around here that are not spewing hate are spewing hyper patriotism and wouldn't hear any argument to touch defense spending.